User Manual

i2M musicport

Desktop Editor Software Manual

makes it easy to run the Desktop Editor Software alongside other applications, such as

sequencers, so it appears much like any other “floating palette” of your main application.

There are several pages of information and parameters which you can configure. These

are selected by clicking on the tabs at the top of the window.

Buttons and switches can be activated by left-clicking the mouse button while sliders and

knobs can be adjusted by left-clicking and dragging the mouse while the button is

pressed. Controls can also be adjusted by moving the mouse wheel when the mouse

pointer is above the control.

Selecting which i2M musicport to configure

You can connect several i2M musicport devices to your computer at once, but the

Desktop Editor Software can only configure one of these at a time. You can select which

device is currently being edited by clicking on the device name box at the bottom-left of

the application and choosing the required device from the menu.

So you can identify which device is which, you can give unique names to each of your

devices: see “Device Name” on page 14.

Indicators

Next to the device name box are three indicators to show when the audio signal is

clipping and when the i2M musicport is sending or receiving

MIDI messages.

The clip indicator replicates the behaviour of the light on the i2M musicport and will

illuminate when the input signal clips. This can be useful if you can’t see the

i2M musicport.

The

MIDI indicators show when the i2M musicport is receiving, or sending MIDI messages.

This can be used to verify

MIDI routing to and from your software. Note that the receiving

indicator only responds to

MIDI that the i2M musicport is able to respond to, such as

controller messages used for the hold and sustain controllers.

Loading and Saving

To allow you to easily backup your settings, or to transfer them to another device, all the

settings of the i2M musicport can be saved to a file with an

“i2M_all”

file extension. This

can be done my clicking the “Save All” button.

When a MIDI Configuration tab is active, this button changes to a “Save midi config”

button which allows you save the currently selected

MIDI Configuration to a file with the

“i2M_midi”

file extension.. This can be useful if you want to copy one configuration to

another before editing it, or to let you exchange your favourite configurations with other

users.

The “Load” button lets you load these files. To load a

MIDI Configuration, simply select the

MIDI Configuration tab into which you want to load the configuration file.